In the news

  • Met Éireann has issued a status yellow nationwide snow and ice warning from Thursday through Friday.
  • A new Tipperary north IFA chair has been elected.
  • The Irish Grain Growers group has hit back at Diageo after the company issued a statement following a growers’ protest outside Guinness Storehouse on Monday.
  • Macra president James Healy believes that the organisation must work on including new members of the Irish community.
  • In this week’s podcast we hear from a farmer who has switched to solar, Lakelands Dairies’ CEO gives his thoughts on the future milk price and grain growers’ protest outside Guinness.

    • Photo of the day

    Dairy farmer, Richard Duff, Ballyknocken, Portlaoise, dosing nine-month-old weanlings with a top up dose for worms. \ Ramona Farrelly